The Fine Print

The use of services from www.viriol.co.ke, [hereafter referred to as “www.viriol.co.ke“] constitutes agreement to these terms.

Account Setup / Email on file

We will setup your account immediately after we have received payment. It is your responsibility to provide us with an email address which is not @ the domain(s) you are signing up under. If there is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact you, the primary email address on file will be used for this purpose. It is your responsibility to ensure the email address on file is current or up to date at all times. If you have a domain name registered with https://www.viriol.co.ke/, it is your responsibility to ensure that the contact information for your domain account and your actual domain name(s) is correct and up-to-date. If you need to verify or change this information, you should contact our support team via email. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account.

Ownership

The e-mail address which is utilized for creating an account is designated as the authorized owner /account holder of the account. Thus all communication is channeled to this email and it is only through this email that we can receive instructions to make changes on the account.

Transfers

We will make every effort to help you move your site to us. However, transfers are provided as a courtesy service, and we cannot make guarantees regarding the availability, possibility, or time required to complete an account transfer. Each hosting company is configured differently, and some hosting platforms save data in an incompatible or proprietary format, which may make it extremely difficult if not impossible to migrate some or all account data. We will try our best, but in some cases we may be unable to assist you in a transfer of data from an old host.

Dedicated IP Address Allocation

Any dedicated IP order in addition to ones provided with a hosting package may be subject to IP Justification. Justification practices are subject to change to remain in conformity with government policies. We reserve the right to deny any dedicated IP request based on insufficient justification or current IP utilization.

Third Party Providers

All transactions with third party providers are solely between the visitor and the individual provider. www.viriol.co.keis not the agent, representative, trustee or fiduciary of you or the third party provider in any transaction. Some products provided by www.viriol.co.ke are provided under license with vendors, and the use of any such third party products will be governed by the applicable license agreement, if any, with such third party.

All discounts, promotions and special third party offers may be subject to additional restrictions and limitations by the third party provider. All transactions with third party providers are subject to the terms and conditions under which the provider agrees with you to provide the goods or services. You should confirm the terms of any purchase and/or use of goods or services with the specific provider with whom you are dealing.

We do not make any representations or warranties regarding, and are not liable for, the quality, availability, or timeliness of goods or services provided by a third party provider. You undertake all transactions with these providers at your own risk. We do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of any information regarding third party providers.

Content

All services provided by www.viriol.co.ke may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of Kenya shall apply.

The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless www.viriol.co.ke from any claims resulting from the use of our services.

Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or trademark is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying of music, books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. The offer of sale of any counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will result in the immediate termination of your account. Any account found to be in violation of another’s copyright will be expeditiously removed, or access to the material disabled. Any account found to be in repeated violation of copyright laws will be suspended and/or terminated from our hosting. If you believe that your copyright or trademark is being infringed upon, please email us with the information required following the rules stipulated below to expedite our ability to process your request, please include the following;

Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon or other information sufficient to specify the copyrighted work being infringed.

Identify the material that you claim is infringing the copyrighted work listed in item 1 above. You must identify each web page that allegedly contains infringing material. This requires you to provide the URL for each allegedly infringing result, document, or item.

Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you.

Provide information, if possible, sufficient to permit us to notify the owner/administrator of the allegedly infringing webpage or other content (email address is preferred).

Include the following statement: “I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.”

Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.”

Sign the paper.

Using a shared account as a backup/storage device is not permitted, with the exception of one cPanel backup of the same account. Please do not take backups of your backups.

Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)

Prime Banks Programs

Lottery/Gambling Sites

Hacker focused sites/archives/programs

Sites promoting illegal activities

Forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal content

Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs

Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com)

Mailer Pro

Broadcast or Streaming of Live Sporting Events

www.viriol.co.ke services, including all related equipment, networks and network devices are provided only for authorized customer use. www.viriol.co.ke systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including to ensure that use is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability, and operational security. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied and used for authorized purposes. Use of www.viriol.co.ke system(s) constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.

Any account found connecting to a third party network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension. Access to networks or systems outside of your direct control must be with expressed written consent from the third party. www.viriol.co.ke may, at its discretion, request and require documentation to prove access to a third party network or system is authorized.

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Any material that, in our judgment, is obscene, threatening, illegal, or violates our terms of service in any manner may be removed from our servers (or otherwise disabled), with or without notice.

Failure to respond to email from our Support department within 48 hours may result in the suspension or termination of your services. All abuse issues must be dealt with via ticket/email and will have a response within 48 hours.

Sites hosted on www.viriol.co.ke service(s) are regulated only by the Laws of Kenya. Given this fact, we do not remove allegedly defamatory material from domains hosted on our server(s). The only exception to this rule is if the material has been found to be defamatory by a court, as evidenced by a court order. www.viriol.co.ke is not in a position to investigate and validate or invalidate the veracity of individual defamation claims, which is why we rely on the legal system and courts to determine whether or not material is indeed considered defamatory. In any case in which a court order indicates material is defamatory, libelous, or slanderous in nature; we will disable access to the material. Similarly, in any case in which a Kenyan Court has placed an injunction against specified content or material; we will comply and remove or disable access to the material in question.

We are republishers and not the publisher of content. Our service merely provides a hosting platform and space on which to host content, and any creation or publication of content on our services is the sole responsibility of the third-party user which creates or publishes the content. Therefore, www.viriol.co.ke should not be held liable for any allegedly defamatory, offensive or harassing content published on sites hosted under www.viriol.co.ke webhosting service(s).

If in doubt regarding the acceptability of your site or service, please contact us at us and we will be happy to assist you.

Potential harm to minors is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography.

Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.

Resellers: we will suspend the site in question and will notify you so you may terminate the account. We will further monitor your activity; more than one infraction of this type may result in the immediate termination of your account.

Direct customers: Your services will be terminated with or without notice.

Violations will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

It is your responsibility to ensure that scripts/programs installed under your account are secure and permissions of directories are set properly, regardless of installation method. When at all possible, set permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as username and password. It is required that you use a secure password. If a weak password is used, your account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure password. Audits may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If an audit is performed, and your password is found to be weak, we will notify you and allow time for you to change/update your password.

Users are solely responsible for any applicable compliance with state laws governing the privacy and security of personal data, including medical or other sensitive data. Users acknowledge that the services may not be appropriate for the storage or control of access to sensitive data, such as information about children or medical or health information. www.viriol.co.ke does not control or monitor the information or data you store on, or transmit through, our services.

Zero Tolerance Spam Policy

We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk emailing, and spam. “Safe lists”, purchased lists, and selling of lists will be treated as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated with or without notice.

Sites advertised via SPAM (Spamvertised) may not be hosted on our servers. This provision includes, but is not limited to SPAM sent via fax, phone, postal mail, email, instant messaging, or usenet/newsgroups. Any account which results in our IP space being blacklisted will be immediately suspended and/or terminated.

www.viriol.co.ke reserves the right to require changes or disable as necessary any web site, account, database, or other component that does not comply with its established policies, or to make any such modifications in an emergency at its sole discretion.

www.viriol.co.ke reserves the right to charge the holder of the account used to send any unsolicited e-mail a clean up fee or any charges incurred for blacklist removal. This cost of the clean up fee is entirely at the discretion of www.viriol.co.ke.

Payment Information

You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from https://www.viriol.co.ke/, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. Subject to all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, all payments will apply to the oldest invoice(s) in your billing account for services. You agree that until and unless you notify www.viriol.co.ke of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis.

Cancellations must be done in writing via email. Once we receive your cancellation and have confirmed all necessary information with you via e-mail, we will inform you in writing (typically email) that your account has been canceled. Your cancellation confirmation will contain a ticket/tracking number in the subject for your reference, and for verification purposes. You should immediately receive an automatic “Your request has been received…” email with a tracking number. An employee will confirm your request (and process your cancellation) shortly thereafter. If you do not hear back from us, or do not receive the automatic confirmation email within a few minutes after submitting your cancellation, please contact us immediately via phone. We require that cancellations of service are done through email requests to (a) confirm your identity, (b) confirm in writing you are prepared for all files/emails to be removed, and (c) document the request. This process reduces the likelihood of mistakes, fraudulent/malicious requests, and ensures you are aware that the files, emails, and account may be removed immediately after a cancellation request is processed.

As a client of https://www.viriol.co.ke/, it is your responsibility to ensure that your payment information is up to date, and that all invoices are paid on time. You agree that until and unless you notify www.viriol.co.ke of your desire to cancel any or all services received (by the proper means listed in the appropriate section of the Terms of Service), those services will be billed on a recurring basis, unless otherwise stated in writing by https://www.viriol.co.ke/. www.viriol.co.ke reserves the right to use any credit on your account if we deem it fit. Once this is done, we will send an email to notify you. www.viriol.co.ke provides a 10 day grace period from the time the invoice is generated and when it must be paid. Any invoice that is outstanding for 10 days and not paid will result in an account suspension until account balance has been paid in full. Access to the account will not be restored until payment has been received.

It is the customer’s responsibility to notify our billing department via a support ticket created from us after paying for any service. Domain renewal notices and invoices are provided as a courtesy reminder and www.viriol.co.ke cannot be held responsible for failure to renew a domain or failure to notify a customer about a domain’s renewal.

Subsequently, domain renewals are billed and renewed 30 days before the renew date. It is the customer’s responsibility to notify our Billing department via a support ticket created from us for any domain registration cancellation. No refunds can be given, once a domain is renewed. All domain registrations and renewals are final.

Invoices that have been paid more than once can only be added as credit towards the account and cannot be refunded. If you require assistance with this provision please send an email to us

www.viriol.co.ke reserves the right to change the annual payment amount and any other charges at anytime.

Backups and Data Loss

Your use of this service is at your sole risk. Our backup service runs once a week and overwrites any of our previous backups made, and only one week of backups are kept. This service is provided to you as a courtesy. www.viriol.co.ke is not responsible for files and/or data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on https://www.viriol.co.ke/’s servers.

Cancellations and Refunds

www.viriol.co.ke reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or otherwise restrict access to the account at any time with or without notice.

Exchange rate fluctuations for international payments are constant and unavoidable. All refunds are processed in KSHS and will reflect the exchange rate in effect on the date of the refund if the refund is international. All refunds are subject to this fluctuation and www.viriol.co.keis not responsible for any change in exchange rates between time of payment and time of refund.

Customers may cancel at any time via an email to us

The following methods of payments are non-refundable, and refunds will be posted as credit to the hosting account:

Bank Wire Transfers

Paypal

Cheques

There are no refunds on dedicated servers, administrative fees, and install fees for custom software. Refund requests for any service will be done but the cost of the domain name and VAT will be subtracted from the fees at the current market value of the domains. Any domain name purchases are non-refundable. Please note that domain refunds will only be considered if they were ordered in conjunction with a hosting package. Eligibility of said refunds will be determined at the time of cancellation.

Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.

Resource Usage

User may not:

1) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.

2) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.

4) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.

5) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. You may link to legal torrents off-site, but may not host or store them on our shared servers.

6) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities

7) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc

8) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes.

9) Run any MySQL queries longer than 15 seconds. MySQL tables should be indexed appropriately.

10) When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include(“https://yourdomain.com/include.php”) use include(“include.php”)

11) To help reduce usage, do not force html to handle server-side code (like php and shtml).

12) Only use https protocol when necessary; encrypting and decrypting communications is noticeably more CPU-intensive than unencrypted communications.

INODES

The use of more than 100,000 inodes on any shared account may potentially result in a warning first, and if no action is taken future suspension. Accounts found to be exceeding the 100,000 inode limit will automatically be removed from our backup system to avoid over-usage, however databases will still be backed up. Every file (a webpage, image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode.

Sites that slightly exceed our inode limits are unlikely to be suspended; however, accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis, have hundreds of thousands of files, or cause file system damage may be flagged for review and/or suspension. The primary cause of excessive inodes seems to be due to users leaving their catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox. Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually pushing the account past our inode limit. To disable your default mailbox, login to cPanel and choose “Mail”, then “Default Address”, “Set Default Address”, and then type in: :fail: No such user here.

Backup Limit

Any shared account using more than 10 GB of disk space will be removed from our off site weekly backup with the exception of Databases continuing to be backed up. All data will continue to be mirrored to a secondary drive which helps protect against data loss in the event of a drive failure.

Bandwidth Usage

You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is purchased at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the overages. Unused transfer in one month cannot be carried over to the next month.

Uptime Guarantee

If your dedicated or VPS server has a physical downtime that is not within the 99.9% uptime you may receive one month of credit on your account. Approval of the credit is at the discretion of www.viriol.co.kedependent upon justification provided. Third party monitoring service reports may not be used for justification due to a variety of factors including the monitor’s network capacity/transit availability. The uptime of the server is defined as the reported uptime from the operating system and the Apache Web Server which may differ from the uptime reported by other individual services. To request a credit, please send an email to us to create a support ticket to our technical department with justification. Uptime guarantees only apply to dedicated/VPS solutions.

Price Change

We reserve the right to change prices listed on https://www.viriol.co.ke/, and the right to change the amount of resources given to plans at any time. Notification will be made in time to the client through email to allow the client time to make plans for adjusting to the new price.

Coupons/Promotions

Discounts and coupon codes are issued with Specific terms and conditions of the offer. Any account found in violation of these policies will be reviewed by our sales department and the appropriate invoices will be added to the account. Coupon abuse will not be tolerated and may result in the suspension or termination of the account. Coupons or discounts are only valid towards the initial purchase, and do not affect the renewal or recurring price.

Indemnification

Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold www.viriol.co.ke harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney’s fees asserted against www.viriol.co.ke, its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, its agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless www.viriol.co.ke against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with www.viriol.co.ke; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to customers from www.viriol.co.ke‘s server.

Arbitration

By using any of www.viriol.co.ke services, you agree to submit to binding arbitration. If any disputes or claims arise against www.viriol.co.ke or its subsidiaries, such disputes will be handled by an arbitrator of www.viriol.co.ke choice. Arbitrators shall be an attorney and shall be selected pursuant to the applicable rules. All decisions rendered by the arbitrator will be binding and final. The arbitrator’s award is final and binding on all parties. The Laws of Kenya will govern all arbitration under this Arbitration Clause. You are also responsible for any and all costs related to such arbitration.

Disclaimer

www.viriol.co.ke shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. www.viriol.co.ke makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. www.viriol.co.ke disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, no deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by www.viriol.co.ke and its employees.

Disclosure to law enforcement

www.viriol.co.ke may disclose any subscriber information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or notification to the subscriber upon lawful request from such agencies. We will cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.

Changes to the TOS

www.viriol.co.ke reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice.